Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
JONATHAN EDWARDSIntend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
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A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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By Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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